Opel GT test drive since 2007 Cabriolet

Pure art

The presentation of the Opel GT Rodster was held in the winds permeated with the sun, the wind and the downwords of the vicinity of Lake Balaton. As it turned out later, the raising of the glasses to the coming of Rodster to Russia was slightly premature.
I have two news. First: when we rolled Opel GT in Hungary, we were solemnly announced that the car would appear on the Russian market this year. The second: when the material about Opel GT was already scored into the number of the room, we were quietly informed that this year the car would not appear in Russia. Maybe only in the following.
Well, okay. While they are deciding there, we will ask here. Question: Do we need it, this Opel? It's not the same for everybody. A very strange car. Not a car, but an anthem of impracticality.
I know who needs this Opel: people in love with a sports car as an object of pure art without the slightest impurity. Who does not give a damn about comfort even for minimal convenience. To whom only L.S., Nm, km/h, etc. are interested. Well, and appearance, of course. With this, Opel GT is fine. Beautiful, powerful and fast, infection.
But if you are a person at least a little everyday and perceive the car partly like household appliances, then ... in general, to warn my business, and you decide for yourself, give it 30 675 for it (this is in Germany, and we will have more than forty) or not .
So. On the road, even not alternate, you will not really take anything. When Roadster mikers want to camouflage the insignificance of the trunk, they write that it is designed for two golf bags. You can write about the Opel GT trunk: designed for one gas tank and one folding roof. It already exists in it. If you manage to shove something more photocophers, then your surname Kio.
In the cabin of the crowded. There are nowhere to put a road dose of drinking. The cap, boring on the head, has nowhere to put it out of the fifth point. True, there are two capacities of the glove compartment and boxing between the seats, but they are generally not serious. Apofigige Ergonomics: an ashtray and a cigarette lighter ... on the left door! Try to use on the go. It’s good that I quit smoking before I sat in Opel GT.
The roof must be placed manually. And preferably together. This is a whole procedure in which only the snap covering the trunk cover is automated by the ignition button. The rest of the manipulations take considerable time. Get out of the car, open the trunk, stretch the roof, paste it, fix it in front, slam the trunk, pinch two more rear clamps. In general, cover in advance if in the weather forecast you heard about variable cloudiness and precipitation places. Otherwise, if the downpour suddenly cuts, you repeat the episode with the tent setting in the adaptation of three in the boat.
What else? The windproof screen is not provided, so in the open version the ears can easily blow. It begins to blow very much into the cockpit on the way to a hundred km/h.
Probably, I would be ready to come to terms with household inconvenience, if ... if there were no other, no less fast and beautiful (and comparable in price) relatives, in which the roof itself closes and the trunk at least something It accommodates, and ... in general, it would not be harmful to this pure art to add a little banal everyday life.
Valery Chusov
Comments (3)
- The first thousand of these cars was sold within 41 minutes. This is not about Ford Mustang and not about Citroen DS, this is about Pontiac Solstice, my brother Opel GT. Seven thousand copies planned for the first year of release were sold within ten days. An additional several hundred people were accepted at the factory in Wilmington, Delaware, and the third shift was introduced. Demand for Solstice and the American version of Opel GT, Saturn Sky, was very large. Of course, against the background of normal cars, this does not look too noticeable: well, what value of 20 thousand cars per year can have? Yes, still smeared in four brands. In addition to the already mentioned Americans and the European, there is also a Korean version of Daewoo G2X. By the way, Saturn and Pontiac dealers with some bewilderment met the news about the beginning of the Daewoo G2X sales. Say, we refuse regular customers here, and these from GM are sent to Korea such necessary cars.
-Reading the outraged comments of the Saturn show room on the 2006 blogs, you somehow recall scenes from Soviet times, when the main thing was not to sell, but to buy. That is, you could not even buy a good thing to purchase only by chance, but to get it. And with these cars the picture was about the same: some buyers overpayed over the queue of five thousand dollars and above. Despite the fact that Sky and Solstice themselves cost about 25-30 thousand. About the same amount in America Mazda CX-7, is also not the cheapest car in its segment. Why love him? Of course, for an American, an expensive car is the one that needs to work for more than six months. In 2006, the average annual income of the American household was just more than 48 thousand dollars. Therefore, the attitude to the cars there is about the same as we have to some laptops. There can be several of them, and they are changed not only because the guarantee has ended or no longer pulls. Sometimes just the appearance of a new model.
-And these relatives for the Americans have become something like MacBook Air: yes, it has only one USB port and there is no DVD ... But this is the same laptop that is placed in the envelope! How so what? T-O-T S-A-M-Mi, we repeat in the first! Here are the classrooms: yes, there is no room for baggage, and there are no passengers either, and the driver is not so easy and convenient there. But this is a class. The embodiment of the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe drive without any excesses there. It is believed that the very fact of its existence is a sports car gives the brand a more attractive image. That is, a teenager who dreams of Opel GT will include his parents to choose exactly Opel Zafira, and not some Citroen C4 Picasso there because Citroen does not have a relatives ...

Abstracts after
1. The latest engine with turbocharged and direct injection and an old 5-speed mechanics to it. Weird.
2. The European Opel GT goes to the market in only one motor-transmission version.
3. The American Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice is entitled to an alternative motor and an optional machine.
4. Opel GT, Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice three of one casket. The first and second are almost the same from the face.
Opel GT
Engine gasoline turbo with non -Ossor. Injection
Raboche volume (cubic cub) 1998
Power (L.S. at rpm) 264 at 5300
Moment (Nm at rpm) 353 at 2500-5000
The rear drive
Gearbox fur. 5-speed
Length/width/height (mm) 4100/1813/1274
Equipped mass (kg) 1363
Maximum speed (km/h) 229
Acceleration to 100 km/h (c) 5.7
Fuel consumption average (l/100 km) 9.2 centers in Germany () 30 675

Text: Sergey Sorokin
Photo: Adam Opel AG
 

Source: "Autopilot"